When Spanish missionaries arrived in Oaxaca in the 16th century, they were recruiting converts not just to Christianity but also to the crops they'd brought along  including radishes, de la Vega says. As lore has it, the indigenous locals already had a pretty strong wood-carving tradition, so the Spanish said, hey, why not carve these radishes?

4 posted on 12/22/2012 4:22:12 PM PST by Alex Murphy
("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)

The Mayans sacrificed humans, we all know about that but I heard recently, on the “History Channel”, so take that for what it’s worth, that the reason they sacrificed humans was to “fuel the sun”. How can anyone take anything they had to say seriously?